Greetings Monks,

I keep getting this weird error:
": No such file or directory
or
bash: ./inventory: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

when I remove the -w from #!/usr/bin/perl from the script inventory. If I run any other scripts without flags, it works fine. Here's what I suspect the problem is: inventory was written on a Windows box running cygwin, and I'm modifying and testing it on a Linux laptop (RH 7.2, perl 5.6.0) and desktop (RH 6.2, perl 5.005_03). When I edit it in vim, it displays DOS at the bottom of the screen, so I think it knows something. Are my linux boxes just being snobbish? Does windows put some trailing : to screw with me? If so, why can't I see it/ get rid of it?
Thanks for the enlightenment,
Pepik

In reply to She-bang confusion by pepik_knize

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